Articles by Anthony Malakian
Thesys Moves Forward with CAT, Signs Contract with SROs
According to regulatory filings, the CAT will cost the industry $50.7 million for the fiscal year beginning November 2016.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technology—Digital Reasoning
While the artificial intelligence (AI) category is new to the Sell-Side Technology Awards lineup, it is reasonable to expect it to be a staple for as long as this program continues to run. The inaugural winner is Franklin, Tennessee-based, Digital…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Alliance or Partnership—Nasdaq & Digital Reasoning
What do you get when you combine the best artificial intelligence (AI) technology provider with the best market surveillance provider from the same awards? Well, you get the winner of this year’s best alliance category award—the first time this category…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Cloud Provider to the Sell Side—BT
Since the launch of the Sell-Side Technology Awards five years ago, there has been only one winner of the best cloud provider category—BT with its BT Radianz Cloud.
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Infrastructure Provider to the Sell Side—AlphaPoint
Back in June 2016, Waters attended the sixth annual New York FinTech Innovation Lab Demo Day, held at Bank of America’s One Bryant Park offices. One of the eight profiled startups on the day was Madison Avenue-based AlphaPoint, whose platform was…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Analytics Product—AlphaSense
No part of the capital markets is seeing more investment and innovation that the analytics sector. Trading firms are always looking to find new information sources and artificial intelligence has helped to improve those efforts as they try to find alpha…
Sell-Side Technology Awards 2017: Best Sell-Side Trading Communication System—Cloud9 Technologies
For the second straight year, it is Cloud9 Technologies taking home the best sell-side communication system award in what’s becoming an increasingly competitive category.
OpenFin Looks to Grow Developer Usage with Community Edition, Open-Source Rollouts
Mazy Dar speaks with Waters about the company’s new Community Edition offering and its decision to open source its core platform.
Analytics, Research Needs Pushing M&A and Value of Infrastructure Providers
Rush Kapashi of McKinsey says we should expect further M&A in the space, specifically to bolster analytics and research needs.
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 68: An Inside Look at IBM Watson
Marc Andrews of IBM sits down with Anthony and Dan to discuss the company's use of Watson for regulatory compliance and surveillance.
Tradeweb’s Bruner Discusses New All-to-All Corporate Bond Trading Platform
Tradeweb enters the all-to-all space, joining companies like MarketAxess, Liquidnet and Trumid.
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 67: A Farewell to Dan
Dan and Anthony talk about how technologists—and traders—are portrayed in TV and on the big screen, and just how accurate those portrayals are.
Trading Technologies Goes Big with TT Desktop
TT CEO Rick Lane talks with Waters about the vendor’s new desktop offering, which can accommodate 18 monitors, if not more.
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 66: Technologists & Film Portrayals
Dan and Anthony talk about how technologists—and traders—are portrayed in TV and on the big screen, and just how accurate those portrayals are.
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 65: Public Cloud Providers Battle for Dominance, The Rise of Artificial Intelligence
Dan and Anthony talk about Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft all battling for market share in the public cloud space.
Artificial Intelligence: Job Killer or Human Augmenter?
At the North American Trading Architecture Summit in New York, artificial intelligence came under the spotlight with industry participants discussing the extent to which it might replace humans across the capital markets.
War of the Clouds: An Inside Look at how Google, Microsoft, IBM & Oracle Are Chipping Away at AWS
The next great battle in the financial services space might not be in the blockchain or AI spaces—although they will play a role. No, the next monumental shift in the technology space is likely to be the public cloud sector. Anthony Malakian looks at how…
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 64: Open Source, Cyber, AI – A NATAS Recap
Dan and Anthony discuss the North American Trading Architecture Summit.
Deutsche Bank CTO: Banks Need to Be Open-Source Contributors, Not Just Takers
While delivering the keynote address at this year's North American Trading Architecture Summit, Jim Adams of Deutsche Bank looked at the need for greater collaboration among banks in the open source space, and delved into the bank's internal projects.
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 63: Acquisition Analysis, Rise of Data Spend
Dan and Anthony analyze four big deals from the past month and look back on data spend in 2016.
GreenKey Adds Gateways to Widen Audience, AI to Handle Mifid II Compliance
GreenKey’s new CEO, Nader Shwayhat, discusses the telephony vendor's latest platform release.
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 62: Shadow IT, CFTC’s Giancarlo at FIA Boca
The guys talk about Dan’s feature and Anthony’s trip to Florida for the industry’s biggest futures conference.
Trading Technologies Sees Increased Adoption of Cloud-Based Platform, Sets Sights on New Coverage Areas
10 percent of TT’s user base is now live on the cloud-based platform as the vendor preps new functionality and asset-class coverage.
Waters Wavelength Podcast Episode 61: Automating Processes
Dan and Emilia discuss the pros and cons of implementing an automation solution that’s holistic.